Julia's Blog

Nothing beats knowing people are reading books and stories you have poured your heart into, fussed and polished with until the words are drummed into your head. The truth is writing is not magic, it is hard, sweaty, heartbreaking work. Words are not the easiest to manage and emotions can get twisted up with motivations.…

It was exhausting editing that fast, reading that much, re-editing, revising, re-writing. And then we format. Formatting is a particular nightmare of mine. If you can’t tell, let me know because formatting is way harder than writing.in any case… 2 books are swimming.

I help my dad with his farm. It’s a cute hobby farm, his grief project, and it keeps him busy. Well today I cleaned out the passage from barn coop to orchard. This was for the 4 big girls. Tomorrow, the 4 ducklings will join them, hopefully going in their enclosure as the sun goes…

After a few struggles, Jommy’s Flights is now for sale in ebook and print, and of course The Hunter is also for sale, bringing the series up to 8 books. The story is expanding, the characters have become friends for many people, and the kids from the stories are growing up, leaving behind some great…

Jommy’s Flights were coming together slowly. Over this past week, I missed a lot of sleep, worked through some computer issues, rewrote a scene, and focused on formatting. I took some time and went to a fair, something I always enjoy; petting animals and looking over interesting things. By the time I came back and…

I have been working somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-15 hours each day on one manuscript or another, except when something comes up. I took some time to play on lake Michigan, I take a break and cook a meal for my husband. I take a break and cook for my dad. Today I went…

One of the things I love about Brom and Mox’s story is seeing growth. Did you notice how much Starseth and Redseth have grown? Matti and Jenny and Kev and Fin? But most starting is Zack, moving from youth to mature. New characters are introduced, like Phriss the older dragon, and Fost, Glinarca’s mate. Did…

I was writing, editing, working on Jommy’s Flights and I use the auto save feature because the last time my computer went wonky I lost 800 pages of work. Needless to say I like avoiding that. Instead, I just realized the auto save has 3 distinct versions done on different days with different corrections. I…

There are a lot of choices we make every day, but the do or write is probably my favorite. Do I clean or write? Should I garden or write? Invited out to shop or write? Well my brother invited me to go out on his boat today and for the first time in four weeks,…

You can find The Hunter on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CCSKZ7FH?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_6&storeType=ebooks And you can check out the other books if you haven’t gone exploring among the humans and dragons of this exciting utopian world. As for me, aside from promotion, I have been working on Jommy’s Flights, the 8th book of the series that tells the tale of…

Book 7 -The Hunter: NewEarth 7 has been submitted and is under review! It should go live in the next three or five days. I’ll let people know when it does. ❤️ Book 8 Jommy’s Flights is with readers. It only needs a last round of editing and then formatting. Then it too will be…

So far everything are on schedule. The Hunter is looking pretty good. Editing is done and most of the formatting is done. Submission begins tomorrow, but it can be a week-long process. One of the details is what goes on the back of the book. Check below to see my favorite draft so far. It…